Life

Raised in Cheboygan, Michigan Sigler's father passed his love of classic monster movies along to his son. His mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading offering him any book he wanted. Sigler wrote his first monster story, "Tentacles", at the age of eight.

Sigler didn't travel far for college having attended Olivet College (Olivet, MI) and Cleary College (Ann Arbor, MI) where he earned a BA in Journalism and a BS in Marketing. Scott has had a varied career path having worked fast food, picking fruit, shoveling horse manure, a sports reporter, director of marketing for a software company, software startup founder, marketing consultant, guitar salesman, bum in a rock band, and social media strategist before turning in his corporate ID to write fiction full time.

Use of Technology

EarthCore was originally published in 2001 by iPublish, an AOL/Time Warner imprint. With the novel doing well as a promotional ebook, Time Warner was planning on publishing the novel. With the economic slump following September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Time Warner did away with the imprint in 2004, Scott decided to start podcasting his novel in March, 2005 as the worlds first podcast only novel to build hype and garner an audience for his work. Sigler considered it a "no brainer" to offer the book as a free audio download. Having searched for podcast novel's and finding none, Sigler decided to be the first. A shameless self-promoter and worker of viral marketing, Sigler was able to get EarthCore offered as a paid download on iTunes in 2006.

Pushing boundaries, Sigler released an Adobe PDF version of Ancestor on Monday 19th March 2007 through Sigler's own podcast as well as others. Ancestor was released on April 1, 2007 to much internet hype and, despite having been released two weeks earlier as a free ebook, reached #7 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and #1 on Sci-Fi, Horror and Genre-Fiction on the day of release.

Sigler is leveraging new media to keep in-touch with his fans, regularly talking with them using social networking sites, via email, and IM.

Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article[1] on March 1, 2007 by Andrew Adam Newman. It was covering authors using podcasting innovations to garner a broader audience.

Influences

Sigler calls King a master craftsman, who writes from the "regular guy" strata from which he hails. "His older stuff had no pretense, no "higher message," no “I’m extremely important” attitude, just rock-solid storytelling and character development. He also would whack any character at any time, and that’s what hooked you in – when characters got into trouble, you didn’t know if they’d live, unlike 99% of the books out there that are trying to develop franchise characters."

Sigler saw King Kong (1976 version) when he was a little kid. He said it, "Scared the crap out of me. I hid behind my dad’s shoulder and begged to leave the theatre. As soon as we were out, I asked when we could see it again – that was the moment I knew I wanted to tell monster stories. I wanted to have that same impact on other people."

Written Material / Podcasts / Theatrical Works

Gaming Modules

Early in his career, Scott wrote content for Role Playing Game gaming modules. Combining his creativity with his experience in playing role playing games with his buddies in his youth, he contributed a number of backdrops to two significant gaming systems.

Television

Comic Book

In 2011, Dark Overlord Media partnered with creator Chad Minshew and comic book publisher IDW to adapt the novel Infected to a comic book. Only one issue of the planned 5-issue series was produced in 2012 before production delays caused the project to be put on permanent hold.

GraphicAudio

In 2016, Empty Set Entertainment entered into an agreement for GraphicAudio to produce and release full-cast audiodrama adaptations of a number of Sigler properties:

Future Stories

Earthcore II: Mount Fitz Roy was officially announced at the September 2006 Portable Media Expo (now renamed "The Podcast & New Media Expo") in Ontario, California. The podcast sequel to Earthcore follows a heavily-armed team led by the surviving Patrick O'Doyle as they head off to the other known Rocktopi site at Mt. Fitzroy, Argentina. While no official release date has been announced, the author stated it would be out approximately one year from the date of the 2006 Expo, which will now be pushed back due to other book releases.

The Killer Galactic Football League Series, Novella VI, by Scott Sigler & J.C. Hutchins. Last planned novella for the GFL series.

Nocturnal, release of a reworked story line from the originally podcasted novel.

Alien: Phalanx, a novel in the Alien universe. Expected from Titan Publishing in Spring of 2020

Trivia

On episodes released the week of June 5th2006, Sigler and fellow podcast novelist J. C. Hutchins announced a contest called "Share The Pain" in which listeners are to identify the six instances in which the storyline of Sigler's Infection podcast novel collide with that of Hutchins' 7th Son. The contest was run by Sigler, Hutchins and Podcast Pickle.

Scott Sigler has made mention of another Scott Sigler, who performs as a clown and has apparently been mistaken for Scott the author. Strangely or suspiciously, the "other" Scott Sigler's clown name is Mookie, the same as Scott's dog.

In the premiere episode Sacred Cow on Stranger Things, Sigler played the voice of Bishop Kirland's personal assistant and can be seen with a large pair of steel scissors.